USB 3.0 device support. ESXi 5.0 features support for USB 3.0 devices in virtual machines with Linux guest operating systems. USB 3.0 devices attached to the client computer running the vSphere Web Client or the vSphere Client can be connected to a virtual machine and accessed in it. USB 3.0 devices connected to the ESXi host are not supported.

Be careful selecting a USB additional card, because not all are supported, and as @andyalder points out, very few devices support USB3, and the transfer speeds you will obtain using USB3 in a VM, are lower than USB3 specifications because the I/O is virtualised.

Also not all USB devices are supported connecting to the Host or the VM.

So, what I'm really say is, USB is a convience, and if it works for you great, BUT DO NOT rely on it for Production usage.

In this article, I will show you HOW TO: Install VMware Tools for Windows on a VMware Windows virtual machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.5 (ESXi 6.5) Host Server, using the VMware Host Client. The virtual machine has Windows Server 2016 instal…

When rebooting a vCenters 6.0 and try to connect using vSphere Client we get this issue "Invalid URL: The hostname could not parsed."
When we get this error we need to do some changes in the vCenter advanced settings to fix the issue.

Teach the user how to use vSphere Update Manager to update the VMware Tools and virtual machine hardware version
Open vSphere Client: Review manual processes for updating VMware Tools and virtual hardware versions: Create a new baseline group in vSp…